Book Recommendations By Genre

[xrxomcyd]

I know I love to read, and on a site about reading, I know there are many other readers out here. I get most of my new book suggestions from popular book lists, or authors that I already like, but every once in a while someone will recommend a book that I have not heard about and would probably never read if they had not mentioned it. I thought it would be fun to start a new thread that celebrates book recommendations; please include a little blurb if you want to give others some traction on why it is good. To make it more fun, you get to pick the next genre from which the recommendation has to come (genres interpreted loosely, or ignored if need be). So here we go:

The Moon is A Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein. A one-armed mechanic, a bombshell blonde, an irreverent anarchist, and a self-aware computer engineer a revolution on the moon. Group marriages, physics lectures, and political polemics all in one story.

How about a recommendation for Nonfiction?

 

[WillTheWriter]

Great thread idea! For nonfiction, "Cleopatra: A Life," by Stacy Schiff. A meticulously researched and sharply written biography about that most intriguing of ancient rulers. Highly recommended.

Thrillers, anyone?

 

[SimplyMsT]

Great thread idea! For nonfiction, "Cleopatra: A Life," by Stacy Schiff. A meticulously researched and sharply written biography about that most intriguing of ancient rulers. Highly recommended.

Thrillers, anyone?

J. R Ward ~ The Black Dagger Brotherhood Series

Six Warrior Vampires. Lovers, Fighters, Brothers. Lethal, not Evil.

Excellent books, if you're into this kind of a thriller

Pick any genre you like for the next one.

 

[1sickbastard]

As for tightly written reads in the Spy genre, Ian Fleming's 007 series has to be included at least on the top 20 list.

For those of you who've never read them, they are nothing like the movies (except maybe "From Russia with Love" or "Dr No").
The characters are far more flawed and the gadgetry, which is kept to a reasonable minimum, is far more realistic (no laser beams in wristwatches).
Some of the situations are still as outrageous (like fighting a giant octopus), but the willing suspension of disbelief is well worth the entertainment value.

 

[Corbal]

J. R Ward ~ The Black Dagger Brotherhood Series

Six Warrior Vampires. Lovers, Fighters, Brothers. Lethal, not Evil.

Excellent books, if you're into this kind of a thriller

Pick any genre you like for the next one.

I loved the first several Bdb books but felt like they got more sloppy later on.

SickBastard didn't leave me one to follow with, so I'll snag my own.

Horror

Blake Crouch - Abandon

If you're a S.King fan you'll enjoy Blake. He's an incredible writer and sets a visual that puts you right in the middle of the story. He's quickly become one of my favorite authors. Birds of Prey is another thriller he wrote that I could not put down.

True Crime is my next genre.

 

[InsatiableDsire]

The MaddAddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood--Oryx and Crake, Year of the Flood, and MaddAddam. These novels explore a post-apocalyptic world called a vision of disaster in the not too distant future.

Atwood states in her acknowledgments, “Although ‘MaddAddam’ is a work of fiction, it does not include any technologies or bio-beings that do not already exist, are not under construction or are not possible in theory.”

 

[VivienneLeroux]

J. R Ward ~ The Black Dagger Brotherhood Series

Six Warrior Vampires. Lovers, Fighters, Brothers. Lethal, not Evil.

Excellent books, if you're into this kind of a thriller

Pick any genre you like for the next one.

You stole my main suggestion! Love this series.

Check out -

The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman

A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

Fool by Christopher Moore

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Okay ANYTHING by Christopher Moore but truth be told, this is one author whose works shine when in audio book format. When they are read by either Euan Morton or Fisher Stevens the books absolutely come alive and are enhanced beyond belief.

 

[xrxomcyd]

Change of pace

Thanks for all your recommendations, I think we should keep this going!

Youth/YA fiction:

Danny, the Champion of the World, by Roald Dahl. Really anything by Dahl is great, (really, highly recommended, and he has some adult works too) but this one is especially good if you love your father, or are a parent to growing children.

How about a graphic novel?

(And of course, book-form erotica is on the table in general for any of these)

 

[SmokinDeist]

Actually the best vampire books I've ever read was Fred Saberhagen's Dracula Sequence.

From Wikipedia:

The Dracula Tape (Warner June 1975) / (Ace Jan. 1980)
The Holmes-Dracula File (Ace Nov. 1978). Allegedly[citation needed] this was not Saberhagen's choice of title, as it gives away what was intended to be a surprise plot point.
An Old Friend of the Family (Ace June 1979)
Thorn (Ace Sep. 1980); text restored and/or revised: (Tor Feb. 1990)
Dominion (Tor June 1982)

"From the Tree of Time" (short story) Sorcerer's Apprentice #14 1982

A Matter of Taste (Tor July 1990)
A Question of Time (Tor May 1992)
Seance for a Vampire (Tor June 1994); republished as The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Seance for a Vampire (Titan Books, June 2010)
A Sharpness on the Neck (Tor Oct. 1996)

"Box Number Fifty" (short story). Dracula in London, ed. P. N. Elrod, Ace Nov. 2001

A Coldness In the Blood (Tor Oct. 2002)

Volumes 3 & 4 were reprinted in omnibus version Vlad Tapes, (Baen July 2000)
Ardneh sequence

 

[grandcentral54]

Thanks for all your recommendations, I think we should keep this going!

Youth/YA fiction:

Danny, the Champion of the World, by Roald Dahl. Really anything by Dahl is great, (really, highly recommended, and he has some adult works too) but this one is especially good if you love your father, or are a parent to growing children.

How about a graphic novel?

(And of course, book-form erotica is on the table in general for any of these)

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